Seven people were killed in lightning strikes in five districts of the country.
Seven people were killed in lightning strikes in five districts of the country. Several others were injured in the incident.
Two people were killed in Chuadanga, two in Bagerhat, one in Muradnagar of Comilla, one in Mathbaria of Pirojpur and one in Parbatipur of Dinajpur.
Chuadanga: Two people, including a farmer, were killed in separate lightning strikes in Chuadanga on Saturday morning.
Bagerhat: Two workers named Milon and Mostafa were killed in a lightning strike at Sharonkhola in Bagerhat on Saturday morning.
Comilla: A teenager named Siam (13) was killed in a lightning strike while playing football at Uttar Trish village in Muradnagar upazila on Saturday morning.
Pirojpur: At around 1 pm on this day, while working in the field of Mathbaria in Pirojpur, lightning striked. A tea trader named Jahangir Hossain (50) died.
Dinajpur: A housewife named Beauty Begum (40) was killed in a lightning strike while enjoying the rain while sitting on a chair in the porch of her house house at Parbatipur in Dinajpur on Friday afternoon.